Federal appeals court rules FDA cannot allow import of execution drug

[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] on Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [official website] policy allowing the importation of a drug used in the execution of state prisoners was illegal. The court did not give deference to the federal agency's policy of neither approving or reviewing shipments of sodium thiopental from Dream Pharma [corporate website], a British manufacturer, because the policy was arbitrary and capricious. The...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/07/federal-appeals-court-rules-fda-cannot-allow-import-of-execution-drug.php

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